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Little Men · Beat 112 · permalink

Dining room

35:20–35:40 Released 1940; registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2135:21Frame at 35:2235:22Frame at 35:2835:28Frame at 35:3535:35

Play from 35:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 283–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young boy, dark hair, wearing a suit and bow tie, seated at table visible
  • young girl, dark hair, wearing a light dress with lace collar, seated at table visible
  • young boy, light hair, wearing a suit and bow tie, seated at table visible
  • adult man, mustache, wearing a suit and bow tie, seated at table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three young people sit at a table with food and glassware. [frame:1]
  • An adult man smiles while seated at the table. [frame:2]
  • The group at the table looks toward someone off-screen. [frame:3]
  • Two young people at the table look at each other while holding utensils. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'll bet he smokes, too. That's right, mushbags.” 35:28 · “Sure, and blow it out my nose. I'll teach you sometime.” 35:35
Seen
dining table [frame:1], glassware [frame:1], food on plates [frame:1], wallpaper with floral pattern [frame:1], candlestick [frame:1], bow ties [frame:2], utensils [frame:4], mirror on wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted teasing during a meal; themes: youth, social interaction, dining etiquette, humor; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

Three young people and an adult man are seated at a dining table in a decorated room; dialogue suggests teasing about smoking. No names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“That's very funny.” 35:20 · “On him? Maybe you'd like to shake hands again. Boys?” 35:24 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Little Men (1940) at 35:21 (passage 35:20–35:40); US record: No renewal found

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